In Leadership, Good Enough Is Pretty Bad

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Abstract: The leaders will be more successful when they avoid a “good” attitude and adopt an attitude of having a “strong dissatisfaction” with the things.

In Leadership, Good Enough is quite bad
by Brent Filson

The first time I meet a leader to decide whether we should work together, I always ask a question. The answer to that question gives me an idea whether we will have a productive relationship. The response also says how the race would become leader.

I ask, “Are you satisfied with the results we are getting now?”

It is a fairly simple question, but it points to a world of difference between the leaders. Because if the answer is “yes”, after our reunion will be brief. Let’s quickly go our separate ways. My leadership can not be happy to help a leader, a leader who lives by “good enough”. These methods can help in cases where only a powerful leader of dissatisfaction with the results h / she is doing now.

To understand this, go back to basics: Leaders do nothing more important than get results. If you can not get results, will not be leader for long. Someone who can get results is always waiting in line to take his place. If “good enough” is okay with you, you are the next best thing to someone who can not or will not obtain the necessary results. Therefore, “good enough” is your enemy, “the discontent of large extent” of his benefactor.

I’m not saying you should go around a funk mightily pleased with everything and everyone. You will be a real pain. What I am saying is the results should be regarded not as an end in themselves but part of a natural process for more. Strong dissatisfaction need not be a Downer. It can be a joy. The joy of having the opportunity and privilege of thinking and acting back again. To be mightily unhappy, one must be relaxed, open, caring, and humble. Banish “good enough” that includes “powerful discontent becomes a deeply rewarding, not only of being a leader, but to live life.

Therefore, a joy, discontent powerful within their address and see the difference it makes in their interactions with others and in the results.